Written Evidence Jan. 29 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: RWA0016 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum & Immigration) Bill Bail for Immigration Detainees Written Evidence
Jan. 04 2024
Source Page: I. Letter dated 21/12/2023 from Tom Pursglove MP to Diana Johnson MP regarding concessions to allow UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to consider applications to the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route from individuals who are on immigration bail or in breach of immigration law in prescribed circumstances. 2p. II. Ministerial Authorisation under the Equality Act 2010: Equality (Applying two concessions around immigration bail and overstaying relating to BN(O) applicants who previously claimed asylum) Authorisation 2023. 2p.Found: dated 21/12/2023 from Tom Pursglove MP to Diana Johnson MP regarding concessions to allow UK Visas and Immigration
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) process FNO cases—we have created a new taskforce across the HO and MoJ—including the prison service, immigration - Speech Link
Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were electronically tagged as a condition of immigration bail as of 1 September 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of electronic tagging in immigration cases in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Foreign nationals who commit crimes here in the UK will face the full force of the law, including deportation at the earliest opportunity for those eligible.
In some cases, where deportation is delayed, individuals may be released on electronic monitoring as a condition of immigration bail, pending deportation.
Since 14 June 2022, we have been piloting the use of EM with a small cohort of individuals who have arrived in the UK through illegal and dangerous routes.
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) , Tom Pursglove, on immigration. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) bail, with strict reporting conditions. - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claimants, excluding foreign national offenders, have been subject to electronic monitoring as a condition of immigration bail since 1 January 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The information requested is not available from published statistics.
The Home Office does not electronically monitor asylum claimants as a matter of course. However, Schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016 provides a discretion for the SSHD or the First Tier Tribunal to impose such a condition which may mean that a small number of individuals who have claimed asylum may be subject to electronic monitoring as a condition of bail. In such instances, an individualised assessment of the claimant’s suitability for electronic monitoring would be undertaken either by the Home Office, the relevant Immigration Judge, or both.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy frameworkFound: bail from the First-tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Foreign national offenders on licence, PSS and IS91 policy frameworkFound: bail from the First-tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of levels of compliance with post-charge police bail - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Decisions on bail conditions are set, enforced and monitored locally, but it is very important that where - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The offender was on police bail at the time, with curfew conditions, for a separate offence. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) Can I please have a meeting with an Immigration Minister, as this issue is still unresolved? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None created a new taskforce across the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, including the Prison Service, Immigration - Speech Link
2: None On pre-trial detention, the Lady Chief Justice has confirmed that if bail applications are made to the - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) applications and to consider the balance as to whether bail or remand is the appropriate disposal in - Speech Link